John Ruskin Quotes
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
[Cheerfulness]
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.
[Conceit]
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Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
[Youth]
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Consider whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to the doors out of which we had been carried to the grave, saying, "Look, this was his house, this was his chamber."
[Ancestry]
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Cunning signifies, especially, a habit or gift of overreaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority. - It is associated with small and dull conceit, and with an absolute want of sympathy or affection. - It is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and utter.
[Cunning]
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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Disorder in a drawing room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
[Vulgarity]
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Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside; they may be light and accidental, but they are ugly soot from the smoke of the pit, and it is better that our hearts should be swept clean of them, without one care as to which is largest or blackest.
[Falsehood]
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
[Action]
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
[Positive]
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Economy, whether public or private, means the wise management of labor, mainly in three senses; applying labor rationally, preserving its produce carefully, and distributing its produce seasonably.
[Economy]
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
[Education]
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
[Education]
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Every duty which we omit, obscures some truth which we should have known.
[Duty]
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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